Management of a Mobile Floating Carotid Plaque Responsible for Calcified Cerebral Emboli: A Double Sword of Damocles.

Introduction: The management of a rare case of calcified cerebral emboli associated with a mobile carotid plaque (MCP) is reported and discussed.

Report: A 76 year old patient presented with sudden weakness of the left lower limb one month ago, which resolved spontaneously. A cerebral magnetic resonance imaging showed recent multiple infarcts in the right middle cerebral artery (MCA) territory.

Mild encephalopathy with reversible splenial lesion: Description of nine cases and review of the literature.

Mild encephalopathy/encephalitis with reversible splenial lesion (MERS) is a transient clinico-radiological syndrome characterized by non-specific encephalopathy and specific magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) pattern. MRI shows an ovoid lesion in the mid-splenium of the corpus callosum (SCC), with signal-intensity anomaly similar to stroke but vanishing within few weeks. Although there are a lot of child MERS cases descriptions, there are just a few adult-onset reported.

[Non-motor symptoms of Parkinson disease and their management].

Non-motor symptoms of parkinson's disease and their management. Non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease are often the first manifestations of the disease before diagnosis is made. These symptoms are diverse: psychic manifestations such as anxiety, depression or behavioral disorders, dysautonomia, pain, alteration of smell or vision, and sleep disturbances.